critics

• Thomson- Mitch 'reenacts the retributive punishment of cruel exposure and fatal rejection to which Blanche has subjected Allan'
• 'The suburbs became a central fact of postwar America and new arena for proving one's manhood'- Kimmel
• 'Stanley-Stella relationships is one of the supreme examples of hierarchisation of activity/passivity opposition'- Panda
• 'This derogatory treatment of women sees them as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer'